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B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Friends, my time at the Banana 2 conference was brief, but great! Although the weather in Los Angeles has been unseasonably rainy and cold (it actually hailed during our panel), everyone I met was warm and wonderful. And surprisingly, I wasn’t the only bi-racial Persian there! I met Kaywan Shiraz, a managing partner for Kasama Media.

If you didn’t know, the term “banana” refers to Asians (“yellow” on the outside, “white” on the inside). There was some great discussion on what “Asian” includes, and organizer Edward Hong made some great points about how 99% of the conference attendees represented East Asia, but that South and West Asians were underrepresented. In the same edible style, this contingent was referred to as “coconuts” (brown on the outside…). Here are mine and Jehanzeb’s sticky notes: